| | Blake Shelton Startin' Fires CD Blake Shelton Discography of CDs
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The fifth album by Nashville star Blake Shelton, STARTIN' FIRES continues the singer-songwriter's winning mix of tongue-in-cheek wit (a previous album was called PURE B.S.) and heartfelt sentimentality. On STARTIN' FIRES, Shelton's sardonic humor is best heard on the album's closing track, a saucy duet with Shelton's girlfriend, country star Miranda Lambert, called "Bare Skin Rug," as well as similarly PG-13 material like "This is Gonna Take All Night" and "Country Strong." His more serious material includes the patriotic "Home Sweet Home," the wistful "I Don't Care," and a fine pair of lost-love ballads, "I'll Hold On" and "100 Miles."
Personnel: Bryan Sutton (acoustic guitar); Brent Rowan (electric guitar); Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Jonathan Yudkin (mandolin); Chip Davis, Melodie Crittenden (violin, background vocals); David Davidson , David Angell (viola); Monisa Phillips Angel, Kristin Wilkinson (cello); Bobby Braddock, Tim Lauer (strings); Gordon Mote (piano); Rim Lauer (Hammond b-3 organ); Glenn Worf (bass guitar); Shannon Forrest (drums); Wes Hightower (background vocals).
Arrangers: Bobby Braddock; Tim Lauer.
Rolling Stone (p.126) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "His fifth album leans toward slow, thoughtful stuff, like "Home Sweet Home,' in which Shelton flees the Nashville circus for the comforts of a bread-basket backwater."
Entertainment Weekly (p.119) - "[Shelton] definitely knows how to craft a sturdy country tune....These FIRES are fueled by mid-tempo beer-joint grooves..." -- Grade: B-
Billboard (p.77) - "[M]ostly Shelton is in L-O-V-E and overjoyed to sing about it. 'Country Strong' offers an anthemic salute to boot-wearin' men and women..." Startin' Fires Music Review Purchase Startin' Fires CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Brad Paisley Time Well Wasted CD (2005)
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Brad Paisley's music is an interesting amalgam of country sub-genres, a paradigm all its own. He melds straightforward, pop-friendly New Country with clever, somewhat Lyle Lovett-like songwriting and the occasional flutter of Joe Maphis/Jimmy Bryant-style guitar virtuosity. Surprisingly or not, this country combo platter made Paisley a star, and TIME WELL WASTED continues in the aforementioned vein. While there are some fairly mainstream moments here that wouldn't ruffle the feathers of, say, the average Kenny Chesney fan, WASTED boasts plenty of smart, sassy tunes brimming with lyrical witticisms ...
| | Joe Nichols Real Things CD (2007)
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Following the mainstream success of Joe Nichols's hit "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off" from his previous album JOE NICHOLS III, the Nashville singer could easily have become a successful purveyor of similar pop-oriented novelty hits. Encouragingly, REAL THINGS instead makes a left turn into traditional country, filled with acoustic ballads such as "Another Side of You" and "All Good Things." Even the ...
| | Lady Antebellum CD (2008)
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Nashville trio Lady Antebellum consists of vocalists Charles Kelly and Hillary Scott, ...
| | Jamey Johnson That Lonesome Song CD (2008)
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| | Toby Keith That Don't Make Me A Bad Guy CD (2008)
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Twelve studio albums into his career, Toby Keith has settled into the sort of comfortable groove that generally allows a country singer to maintain a career for several decades. After spending the first years of the 21st century embroiled in non-musical sideshows like an ongoing feud with Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks and mild controversies about his political beliefs, THAT DON'T MAKE ME A BAD GUY, like its predecessor, BIG DOG DADDY, leaves social commentary behind for a genial, mature brand of rock-influenced country. The first single, the power ballad "She Never Cried In Front Of ...
| | Trace Adkins X (Ten) CD (2008)
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Nashville star Trace Adkins returns with his 10th album in a dozen years, a no-nonsense collection of traditional-style country tunes with subtle rock and R&B influences. The gospel-tinged first single, "Muddy Water," and the old-fashioned country tearjerker "Sometimes A Man Takes A Drink" are particular highlights, as are the ...
| | Debby Boone Greatest Hymns CD (2000)
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| | Mission Of Burma vs. - The Definitive Edition CDs (1982) Bonus DVD; Remastered
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| | Jerusalem CD (2008)
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| | Now That's What I Call Motown CD (2009)
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| | Dierks Bentley Feel That Fire CD (2009)
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Five studio albums into his career, Dierks Bentley has carved a successful niche for himself on the Nashville scene, and FEEL THAT FIRE continues to exploit his strengths. Soulful and real enough to stand out from the cookie-cutter Nashville hordes, Bentley takes cues from the outlaw country generation ...
| | Jaafar Kollektion CD (2008)
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$12.65
JAAFAR- “Middle Eastern Jazz Arabic Funk Fusion”, and its all here within these 19 tracks recorded over a two year span in America and Egypt. With bass, oud, keys, drums, darbuka, tabla, flute, saxaphone, and guitar, JAAFAR expertly fuses traditional Arabic melodies, classical Indian concepts of composition, North African rhythmic grooves and pure American Jazz along side "old-school Funk" to produce the completely unique sounds of JAAFAR. They have incorporated the Middle Eastern techniques of melodic improvisation ...
| | Karaoke: Country 2008 2 CD (2008)
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